Curriculum Vitae:
| until 2005 | Studies: Latin American Regional Sciences at the University of Cologne |
| Studies: Latin American History and Literature at the Jannus Pannonius University of Pécs, Hungary | |
| July 2000 – September 2000 | Placement with the human rights organisation Comisionado Nacional de los derechos humanos, San Pedro Sula, Honduras |
| 2001-2002 | Student assistant at the Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn |
| Graduate assistant at the University of Münster | |
| since summer semester 2008 | Research assistant at the University of Münster |
Ph.D. project:
Priests and Politics.
The Attitudes of the Jesuits in Chile from 1964 to 1983
The 31st General Congregation of the Society of Jesus was held in 1965-1966 under the influence of the Second Vatican Council, which marked the beginning of a sweeping change of the largest Catholic order. A change towards a stronger commitment to social justice accompanied the initiated reforms. In many Jesuit provinces, centres for social research and social action had already been founded, their major function being to change both the people’s mind-set and social structures in terms of social justice. The Chilean Centro Bellarmino, in which the Jesuit research centre was pooled together with the Jesuit magazine »Mensaje«, became well-known internationally. The bishops in Chile welcomed the Jesuits’ research work and consulted the specialists of the Centro Bellarmino, who were skilled in social and economical science.
The dissertation’s point of origin is the Catholic Church’s stance on the respective governments in Chile between 1964 and 1990, that is, the Christian Democratic government of Eduardo Frei, the Socialist government of Salvador Allende and the military government of Augusto Pinochet. What are the reasons for the Church’s positions? If the Catholic Church is understood to be a political player, however, its positioning and action can only be insufficiently explained by exclusively examining the topmost hierarchical level.
Therefore, the political positions of the Jesuit order, which was regarded as the politically most important order of the Catholic Church, will be identified in order to correlate them with the positions of the bishops. In addition, the interactions of the different ecclesiastic institutions will be considered to arrive at a sophisticated understanding of the Church as a player. On the one hand, the Church’s institutional structures will have to be focussed on, and on the other hand, the networks of the clerics – also the informal ones – will have to be studied. The hierarchical organisation, what the Catholic Church like no other institution is known for, will be examined in this perspective. In doing so, the notions of authority and obedience in their post-conciliary change will be accounted for.
In order to be able to understand the views and actions of the Jesuits in Chile, these must be seen in the context of the change in the Society of Jesus after the Second Vatican Council and the order’s 31st General Congregation, respectively. Therefore, the development of the social apostolate of the order under Superior General Pedro Arrupe will be retraced and the Jesuit’s self-perception in regards to their social role will be elaborated.
Research interests:
- Contemporary church history in Latin America
- History of the Jesuits
- Independence movements
- Military dictatorships
- regional focuses: Paraguay, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia
Participation in the Cluster:
- Member of the study group The (long) 70s
- Member of the study group Emic and etic Perspektives on Religion and Politics
- Member of the study group Theories and Methods from a Comparative Interdisciplinary Perspective
Publications:
- Umkämpfte Gewalt. Jesuitische Perspektiven auf die Soziale Ordnung, Chile 1968-1973, in: Hensel, Silke/ Wolf, Hubert (Hrsg.): Katholische Kirche und Gewalt. Europa und Lateinamerika im 20. Jahrhundert, Böhlau 2013. (im Druck)
- Mehrstimmig, aber im Chor. Jesuiten und Erzbistum Santiago in Pinochets Chile, 1975, in: SZRKG 106, 2012. (im Druck)
- Zwischen jenseitiger Erlösung und irdischem Heil. Die Rezeption der Befreiungstheologie in der Gesellschaft Jesu, in: Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, Band 51, 2011, pp. 419-443.
- Entre revolución y reforma. Los jesuitas en Chile en los años sesenta, in:
Iberoamericana Quinqueecclesienis 9, 2009, pp. 49-60. - Das Bild des paraguayischen Diktators Dr. Francia in der internationalen Geschichtsschreibung des 20. Jahrhunderts, in: Christian Wentzlaff-Eggebert/Martin Traine (ISSN 1616-9085), 2005.
Lectures:
- Jesuiten und Sozialismus, oder: Wie eigen darf die eigene Meinung in der katholischen Kirche sein?, Vortrag an der Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz im Rahmen des Seminars: „Von Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler bis Fernando Lugo. Zum Engagement von Bischöfen und Priestern in der Politik“ auf Einladung von Prof. Dr. theol. Armando Lampe, 29. Juni 2012.
- Religious Obedience Since the 1960s; or, What Kind of Man is a Chilean Jesuit?, Tagung des Exzellenzclusters Religion und Politik: Religions and Masculinities en las Américas, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 29./30. September 2011.
- "Solo el violento que ame puede ser justificado." Los jesuitas y la legitimación de la violencia. Chile 1969-1973, XVI Congreso internacional de AHILA, Ayuntamiento de San Fernando/Universidad de Cádiz, Spanien, 6. - 9. September 2011.
- Cuando la teología de la liberación llegó a Roma. La Congregación General XXXII de los Jesuitas en 1974/75, XII Jornadas Iberoamericanas, Jannus Pannonius Universität Pécs, Ungarn, 2.- 4. Mai 2011.
- Gewalt, Gegengewalt und die vielen Stimmen der Katholischen Kirche. Chile 1975, Tagung des Exzellenzclusters Religion und Politik: Katholische Kirche und Gewalt im 20. Jahrhundert, Westfälische Wilhelms – Universität Münster, 19. – 21. Mai 2010.
- Las ideas sociales de los Jesuitas en Chile en los años 1960, XI Jornadas Iberoamericanas, Jannus Pannonius Universität Pécs, Ungarn, 3.- 5. Mai 2010.
- El papel de los sacerdotes y religiosos en la Iglesia y la Sociedad: 1964- 1990, 4a Jornada Historia Religiosa, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chillán, Chile, 28./29. August 2008.
- Die Haltung der Katholischen Kirche in Chile zu den Menschenrechtsverletzungen unter der Militärregierung Augusto Pinochets, Forschungskolloquium zur Neuesten Geschichte veranstaltet vom LWL-Institut für Westfälische Regionalgeschichte zusammen mit dem Historischen Seminar der WWU, 16. April 2008.
Organization:
- International conference: Religions and Masculinities en las Américas, (together with Heiko Kiser, Antje Schnoor, Olaf Stieglitz), Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics, September 29-30, 2011, Münster
Courses:
- Winter semester 2007-2008: Lecture tutorial: Introduction to Modern and Recent History (in German)
Contact
Dipl. Reg. Wiss. Antje SchnoorJohannisstraße 1
Room 010
D-48151 Münster
Germany
Tel.: +49 251 83-23530
Fax: +49 251 83-23500
antje.schnoor@uni-muenster.de
Supervisor
Prof. Dr. Silke HenselHistory Department
Domplatz 20-22
Room 125
D-48143 Münster
Germany
Tel.: +49 251 83-24356
Fax: +49 251 83-24382
shensel@uni-muenster.de
Supervisor
Prof. Leo J. O'Donovan S.J.Georgetown-University
